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FROM GAIRDNER'S RANGE TO PERTH.
THE HILL RIVER.
Sunday April 14.
We travelled about fourteen miles due south over a range of high ironstone hills which were occasionally clothed with grass-trees.

The scrub was however still thick, prickly, and very difficult to penetrate; the heat was intense and the whole party were getting very weak.

About noon, and when we had just gained a commanding summit, I looked back at Mount Perron, now several miles in our rear; from this point we began to descend into an extensive valley, and at the end of fourteen miles reached a small river which I named the Hill.
DISCOVERY AND PILLAGE OF A NATIVE PROVISION STORE.
We halted at the first pool we came to and the men, who had a little flour left, boiled two tablespoonfuls of this in about a pint and a half of water, thus making what they called soup.

In the meantime Kaiber came in and told me that he had found some holes in which the natives had, according to their custom, buried a store of By-yu nuts,* and he at the same time requested permission to steal them.
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